Legal Opinion
Craft v. Kobler
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 6, 1987No. 87 Civ. 2601 (PNL)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVAL, District Judge.
This is an action for copyright infringement brought to enjoin a new, as yet unpublished, biography of the composer Igor Stravinsky written by John Kobler. The book is entitled Firebird, A Biography of Igor Stravinsky {“Firebird”). A motion for a preliminary injunction, which was heard on an expedited basis, seeks to stay the distribution of Firebird, pending final adjudication. The motion for a preliminary injunction is granted.
The plaintiff is Robert Craft. For the last twenty years of Stravinsky’s life, Craft was his amanuensis, personal assistant and closest…
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